Vital Signs
Pointers Menurut saya, dari filsafat, adanya Tuhan bukan sesuatu yang bisa dibuktikan. Tapi ada petunjuk-petunjuk yang bisa menunjuk bahwa Tuhan itu ada, dan kita diciptakan.… Read More »Vital Signs
Pointers Menurut saya, dari filsafat, adanya Tuhan bukan sesuatu yang bisa dibuktikan. Tapi ada petunjuk-petunjuk yang bisa menunjuk bahwa Tuhan itu ada, dan kita diciptakan.… Read More »Vital Signs
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Lesslie Newbigin lived and worked in South India from 1936 to 1974, and originally wrote this in Tamil. Wherever and whenever we look at man,… Read More »Lesslie Newbigin on man’s contradictions
In The Heretical Imperative [Peter Berger] has argued that the distinctive feature of this [‘modern’, Western] culture is that there is no generally acknowledged “plausibility… Read More »Leslie Newbigin on The Heretical Imperative
In the second installment of James Lovegrove’s tremendous Sherlock Holmes / H. P. Lovecraft mashup, Moriarty – assumed dead – has returned as the god… Read More »Emperor of Ruins (Lovecraftian anthropology; Kremlin psychodrama)
This is a nice summary of the Lovecraftian worldview from James Lovegrove’s Sherlock Homes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities, to compare and contrast with your own.… Read More »Lovecraftian Theology; or, Holmes in the Hammam
John Wesley (1703-1791), founder of the Methodist movement, may have been surprised to have a quadrilateral named after him, but the idea (articulated by Albert… Read More »Wesley’s Quadrilateral
Does it matter who says it? Science says: “It doesn’t matter who said it. What matters is the evidence and the reasoning.” Science is the… Read More »Who says?